777.210 Port
may engage in certain port management activities. A port may:
(1) Establish,
operate and maintain water transportation lines in any of the navigable waters
of this state and waters tributary thereto, any portion of which may touch the
boundaries of the port.
(2) Engage
generally in the business of buying and selling coal, fuel oil and all kinds of
fuel for watercraft of all kinds.
(3) Acquire,
construct, maintain and operate sea walls, jetties, piers, wharves, docks, boat
landings, warehouses, storehouses, elevators, grain bins, terminal icing
plants, facilities for processing agricultural, fish or meat products, bunkers,
oil tanks, ferries, canals, locks, tidal basins, bridges, subways, tramways,
cableways, conveyors, power plants, power transmission lines, administration
buildings and fishing terminals, and modern appliances and buildings for the
economical handling, packing, storing and transportation of freight and
handling of passenger traffic with full power to lease and sell the same,
together with the lands upon which they are situated, whether held by the port
in its governmental capacity or not.
(4) For the
public convenience and the convenience of its shipping and commercial
interests, may improve all or any portion of the waterfront of its harbors,
rivers and waterways.
(5) Enlarge its
tidal area, and construct, excavate and dredge canals and channels connecting
its waterways with one another or with other waterways and the sea.
(6) Acquire,
construct, maintain and operate airports anywhere within the port.
(7) Acquire,
construct, maintain, operate, support, promote and invest in facilities and
related activities for the propagation of fish in accordance with the
commercial fishing laws.
(8) Acquire,
construct, maintain and operate facilities for constructing, repairing or
maintaining any type of watercraft. [1971 c.728 §23 (enacted in lieu of
777.130); 1979 c.407 §3; 2017 c.165 §1]
777.215 [1963 c.209 §4; repealed by 1971
c.727 §203]
Notes of Decisions
Harrison v. Port of Cascade Locks, 556 P.2d 160 (Or. Ct. App. 1976).
· cites it 3× “210, the Washington Supreme Court observed: "Counsel’s argument rests upon an assumption, oft repeated and as many times assumed, that the port district is the city of Seattle and King county, and whatever is done by it within these limits and which may affect the inhabitants of…”
Brusco Towboat Co. v. State Ex Rel. State Land Bd., 589 P.2d 712 (Or. 1978).
“In their petition for review, the plaintiff port districts stress the language of ORS 777.210(3), which authorizes the ports to acquire, construct, maintain or operate piers, wharves, docks, boat landings and other facilities "with full power to lease and sell the same, together…”
Harrison v. Port of Cascade Locks, 587 P.2d 496 (Or. Ct. App. 1978).
· cites it 6× “The Port’s prin *394 cipal argument in this regard is that it is authorized by ORS 777.210(3), which provides, "A port may: "(3) Acquire, construct, maintain or operate sea walls, jetties, piers, wharves, docks, boat landings, warehouses, storehouses, elevators, grain bins,…”
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 777.210(3) — 3 cases
Harrison v. Port of Cascade Locks, 556 P.2d 160 (Or. Ct. App. 1976).
“210, the Washington Supreme Court observed: "Counsel’s argument rests upon an assumption, oft repeated and as many times assumed, that the port district is the city of Seattle and King county, and whatever is done by it within these limits and which may affect the inhabitants of…”
Brusco Towboat Co. v. State Ex Rel. State Land Bd., 589 P.2d 712 (Or. 1978).
“In their petition for review, the plaintiff port districts stress the language of ORS 777.210(3), which authorizes the ports to acquire, construct, maintain or operate piers, wharves, docks, boat landings and other facilities "with full power to lease and sell the same, together…”
Harrison v. Port of Cascade Locks, 587 P.2d 496 (Or. Ct. App. 1978).
“The Port’s prin *394 cipal argument in this regard is that it is authorized by ORS 777.210(3), which provides, "A port may: "(3) Acquire, construct, maintain or operate sea walls, jetties, piers, wharves, docks, boat landings, warehouses, storehouses, elevators, grain bins,…”
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